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This clique’s usage of superstandard English and polysyllabic words led Mary Bucholtz (“BUCK-holts”) to categorize them as “hyperwhite.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this stigmatized social category whom Bucholtz contrasted with burnouts and jocks. This clique is stereotypically cast as intellectually overachieving and socially underachieving.
ANSWER: nerds [accept nerd girls]
[10m] Bucholtz’s study of nerd girls showed that their identity practices drew from a resistance to this phonological process. Nasals often undergo this process with their following stop, like with the phoneme /n/ (“n”) in the word “pancake” but not “pan.”
ANSWER: assimilation [accept place assimilation; accept nasal assimilation or nasal place assimilation]
[10h] Bucholtz and Hall’s framework for sociocultural linguistic analysis uses this concept to describe how linguistic forms construct identity. This concept refers to the creation of semiotic links between a sign and its context, and it is related to deixis.
ANSWER: indexicality
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